A Simple Plan

A Simple Plan

By Unknown

  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release Date: 1999-06-22
  • Advisory Rating: R
  • Runtime: 2h 1min
  • Director: Unknown
  • Production Company: Paramount Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • iTunes Price: USD 12.99
  • iTunes Rent Price: USD 3.99
7.2/10
From 936 Ratings

Description

Based on Scott Smith's bone-chilling blockbuster 1993 novel, A Simple Plan is a bit of a departure for horror-film director Sam Raimi. Instead of flying eyeballs and dancing corpses, A Simple Plan is a taught crime thriller in the vein of Joel Coen's Academy Award-winning Fargo. Set during the white winters of Minnesota, this story tells the eerie tale of Hank and Jacob Mitchell (played by Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton) who, along with a buddy, find a downed single-engine plane buried in the snowy woods. Inside it is a decaying pilot and a bag carrying four million dollars in one-hundred-dollar bills. The men decide to hide the money until spring when the snow is melted and the plane is found. If no one notices the missing money at that time, they will split it and live a wealthy new life. A simple plan, right? Wrong. Much like Humphrey Bogart's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, things can only get worse, as distrust and greed creep into the minds of the principles. They find it difficult to decide which one gets to hold the money — and even more impossible to keep from dipping into the stash until spring. And so on. It also becomes increasingly tough to keep a secret of this magnitude. And if all this doesn't get movie-goers' right-brains working, it seems there are suspicious characters in town who just may be able to link them to the plane, forcing the more dangerous and bloody question of what to do with those people and how to cover their tracks.

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  • Unrecognizable Sam Raimi

    By Semnick01
    Sam Raimi is a director you can easily recognize for such movies as Evil Dead, Drag Me To Hell and the first Spiderman trilogy, but man, he is unrecognizable in this one! Such a mature movie, character driven, with both feet on the ground. It's the real USA depicted in this movie, not the unrealistic and invencible "super country" Michael Bay likes to portrait in his movies. People has ordinary lives, ordinary jobs, but has hopes and dreams, yet almost impossible to achieve.
  • You Reap What You Sow; No Doubt About It.

    By Studly Field Mouse
    Excellent Story, Casting, Acting. Nowdays, with so many lame movies getting churned out, it's easy to forget what a good movie was/is. This one grabs the viewer's attention and keeps it 'till the bitter end.
  • Really good movie

    By DarkfrostReviews
    This is def worth seeing once if not a couple times more. Great movie
  • Great movie, but DO NOT PURCHASE FROM ITUNES

    By la2161
    Great movie, but movie doesn't play after download. Don't waste your time or money. My advice...purchase the movie some place other than iTunes.
  • A simple plan

    By Drerises
    Great movie from a great novel and a good story . It got that Hitchcock suspense! These character are flawless and dark.
  • Great movie well written

    By iceblu121
    Bill Paxton was great
  • Classic

    By Eddie Cain JR
    A great Movie
  • Cool Caper

    By DawnCarrie
    This is a must see movie! On a cold winter night curl up with a blanket & get ready for a treat. This one is a cool caper that holds your attention. An excellent cast & the atmosphere is a perfect fit. Very believable & unfolds at just the right pace. What would you do?
  • Why Can't We Rent This?

    By Cinenut
    I'm not going to pay ten bucks to buy a movie I have never seen before… . (I only gave it a 3 rating because you have to assign some rating to post a comment)
  • One of Sam Raimi's best

    By commonman777
    Such a nice departure from the blood and guts horror flicks to a really well directed real life horror. The performances are the best I've seen from Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton, Bridgete Fonda and the rest of the supporting cast. This and "Fargo" I have to watch every at least every one or two years.